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we know what mentally-in jws believe they are doing when they "love one another"... and many of us here formerly participated in that culty love bombing behavior.. why?.
It`s to gain brownie points with the big J and the little j as well as sucking up to the Elders as to what a good witness you are.
.A.M.If I knew someone who was mildly interested in the JW cult I would do all in my power to dissuade them from having anything to do with them.
i thought the reasoning sound as to the wt explaination of babylon the great, ( world empire of false religion ) but have any of you knowledge of other plausible explainations?
or knowledge of other sources that are in agreement with wt?
In my time as a JW, 32 years and the amount of articles lambasting ,critisizing ,heaping crap on the Roman Catholic Church every chance they had ,didn`t they at one stage say the RCC were the most promiminent part of the counterfeit kingdom of God on earth in Christendom ?
Wouldn`t that constitute them being Babylon The Great ? According to the WT?
canada, province of québec : baby of jehovah's witness parents may receive blood transfusions.
in french, use google translate for english.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1907941/temoin-jehovah-transfusion-sang-anemie.
Thank you Fisherman for that post and others of course for their response.
I guess it would be too much for an ex JW to post here that when he/she was a beleiver that they refused to give permission for a child to recieve a blood transfusion if their was one here.
And that`s certainly understandable.
Maybe it was not an appropriate question to ask in the first place.
(But I can`t help wondering )
when i was a teenager a younger fellow workmate was involved in the sport of judo.i got interested and went along to a number of sessions and took to it like a sponge to water ,and as a sport i was happy participating in.. not that much longer another workmate was getting re-activated in the religion of jw`s.
which i had never heard o before and then got interested in that .. conflict : was judo a sport that was compatible with j.w beliefs?
sadly i decided it was not and stopped any further involvement.. to this day i resent that decision i made back then .and i`m 82 years old now.. it was a sport i was comfortable doing and i enjoyed it.and i gave it up because of the religion .who knows what i may have achieved had i continued with it.
I sometimes wonder why I bother carrying on. They won
Punk : I`m sorry that they destroyed your family and your life ,but they didn`t win ,your out of the religion,the only ones that they won with are the JW`s who are still in the religion .
Don`t give up Bro. you have friends here.While theirs life theirs hope.
.I`m 83 years old and i`m not giving in to the bastards so why would you or anyone else.
Now I'm out, I'm making up for lost time
Keep doing that and enjoy what time you have left.
Take care.
canada, province of québec : baby of jehovah's witness parents may receive blood transfusions.
in french, use google translate for english.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1907941/temoin-jehovah-transfusion-sang-anemie.
I just wonder if past parents who were JW`s and then came to a knowledge of TTATT ever regretted what they had done.
If there are any out there.
I shudder to think I may have done this when I was a believer.
when is the kingdom of god coming?.
on being asked by the pharisees when the kingdom of god was coming, he answered them: âthe kingdom of god is not coming with paratherisis; 21 nor will people say, âsee here!â or, âthere!â for look!
the kingdom of god is in your midst.â âlu 17:20,21. .
Many years ago I vaguely remember the Borg saying something along the line that since Jesus was enthroned as King in 1914 Jesus and the faithful who have been resurrected since then would/could have been told By Jehovah when the GT and the big A will occur .
But I can`t remember if it was in print or just spoken about by the GB.?
Anybody else have a recollection of this ?
this experience highlights the level of my indoctrination, after 10 years of been a pomo.
a few months back my gf was hinting to me about what we could do for my birthday.
to be honest i just had no idea, that i even had a birthday.
I can understand born ins having more trouble shaking off the indoctrination , as a convert as a 19yo I didn`t have much trouble resuming a more balanced way of life.
And I must admit the religion did help me to curb some of my more bad habits I had .like excessive drinking and smoking as a teenager.
here's some 'spiritual gems' from the latest wt, 11/22.
first up, a bethelite who was kicked out, er, "reassigned":.
"she was reassigned to the field after serving at bethel for more than 23 years.
I would say that the first half of these so called experiences could be true but the second half of these experiences are just made up lies.
i left the jw's shortly after i graduated high school.
but when i was still at home i'd get dragged into door to door every saturday morning without fail unless it was pissing rain.
i can remember always being anxious to know what territory my group was assigned.
I regret taking my young sons D2D with me now and coming face to face with their school mates ,what an asshole dad I was .
How would I have liked that if my dad had been a JW ? I cringe when I think of it.
Sorry boys.
if laws were passed compelling the church to report crimes to government authorities and there was no legal way around it and the church was forced to comply and did comply, nobody would confess their sins.
it wouldnât stop people from committing crimes, they just wouldnât tell their church about it.
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I`m confused with this post ?
Is Smiles actually agreeing with Fisherman`s post ? Yet challenging him ?
Am I missing something here ?
